Tyke vs Dyke - What's the difference?
tyke | dyke |
(dialectal) A mongrel dog.
(slang) A small child, especially a cheeky or mischievous one
# (Canadian) An initiation level of sports competition for young children
(dated, chiefly, British) A crude uncouth ill-bred person lacking culture or refinement
(UK, informal) A person from Yorkshire; a Yorkshireman or Yorkshirewoman
(Australian, NZ, informal, derogatory) A Roman Catholic
(Australia, slang) A toilet.
(UK) A ditch (rarely also refers to similar natural features, and to one natural valley, Devil's Dyke, Sussex, due to a legend that the devil dug it).
(UK, mainly S England) An earthwork consisting of a ditch and a parallel rampart.
(British) An embankment to prevent inundation, or a causeway.
(UK, mainly Scotland and N England) A mound of earth, stone- or turf-faced, sometimes topped with hedge planting, or a hedge alone, used as a fence.
(UK, mainly Scotland and N England) A dry-stone wall usually forming a boundary to a wood, field or garden.
(British, geology) A body of once molten igneous rock that was injected into older rocks in a manner that crosses bedding planes.
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As nouns the difference between tyke and dyke
is that tyke is (uk|informal) a yorkshireman or yorkshirewoman; a yorkshire person while dyke is or dyke can be (slang|pejorative) a lesbian, particularly one who appears macho or acts in a macho manner this word has been reclaimed, by some, as politically empowering (see usage notes).As a proper noun tyke
is a dialect, also known as yorkshire, spoken in the county of yorkshire.tyke
English
Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
*(mongrel dog) mongrel, mutt * ankle-biter, nipper, totAnagrams
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dyke
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(wikipedia dyke)Etymology 1
Variant of (dike).Noun
(en noun)- 1977 , In Cubbaroo's dim distant past
They built a double dyke.
Back to back in the yard it stood
An architectural dream in wood''
— Ian Slack-Smith, ''The Passing of the Twin Seater'', from ''The Cubbaroo Tales'', 1977. Quoted in ''Aussie Humour , Macmillan, 1988, ISBN 0-7251-0553-4, page 235.